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Psychology roles in safety and catastrophes

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Course Unit Code711-0511/06
Number of ECTS Credits Allocated2 ECTS credits
Type of Course Unit *Choice-compulsory type B
Level of Course Unit *First Cycle
Year of Study *Second Year
Semester when the Course Unit is deliveredWinter Semester
Mode of DeliveryFace-to-face
Language of InstructionCzech
Prerequisites and Co-Requisites Course succeeds to compulsory courses of previous semester
Name of Lecturer(s)Personal IDName
PAL04Mgr. Libuše Páleníčková, Ph.D.
MAT17Mgr. Jana Matochová, Ph.D.
SCH0130Mgr. Martina Schneiderová, Ph.D.
Summary
The attendants of the course are familiarized with theoretical and practical basis of the procedures and skills related to human behavior in exacting conditions of modern society and to human ability to manage the dangerous or more precisely catastrophic situations.
Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit
- to familiarize with exciting and catastrophic situations of modern society
- to familiarized with crisis management in terms of mass accidents
- to understand psychological aspects of crowd behavior
- to acquire communicational skills for crisis situations
- to know myself with goal to understand others
- to apply social skills in simulations
- to be able to analyze behavior of others in stress
- to learn some methods of managing stress
Course Contents
1. Safety and disasters in a changing world.
2. Crisis management.
3. Connection and communication in crisis situations.
4. Current knowledge of the brain activities and nervous system.
5. Cultivation of personality (character, emotion, intelligence ...).
6. Working with its own personality (diagnosis and development).
7. Social groups (theory, the working group, management).
8. Crowd behavior.
9. Communication and leadership.
10. Habits of leaders
11. Pressures situation, human reactions in pressures situations
12. How to handle burden, debriefing, defusing, early intervention.
13. Plan of stress disorder, symptoms, the possibility of help.
14. Possibilities of help.

Recommended or Required Reading
Required Reading:
Susan Nolen-Hoeksema , Barbara L. Fredrickson , Richard C. Atkinson, Geoffrey R. Loftus , Ernest R. Hilgard, Christel Lutz. Atkinson & Hilgard's Introduction to Psychology. London, 2014. ISBN: 978-1-408-08902-6.
Hausmann, C. Handbuch Notfallpsychologie und Traumabewältigung. Wien, Facultas 2003, 400s.
Interpol. Disaster Victim Identification Guide. Interpol 2009, 55 s.
Weisaeth, L. Psychological and psychiatric aspects of technological disasters. Individual and comunity responses to trauma and disaster. Cambridge University press 1994.
Čech,J.: Vyjednávanie a branie rukojemníka. APZ, Bratislava 2000
Fiala, M., Vilášek, J. Vybrané kapitoly z ochrany obyvatelstva. 1. vyd. Praha: Karolinum, 2010, 208 s.
Kohoutek, T., Čermák, I. Psychologie katastrofické události. Vyd. 1. Praha: Academia, 2009, 362 s.
Mikšík, O. Hromadné psychické jevy: psychologie hromadného chování. Vyd. 1. Praha: Karolinum, 2005, 269 s.
Štětina, J. a spol.: Medicína katastrof a hromadných neštěstí. Grada, Praha 2000. ISBN 80-7169-688-9.
Výrost, J., Slaměník, I. (eds): Aplikovaná sociální psychologie III. Praha, Grada 2004. ISBN 978-80-247-1428-8.
Susan Nolen-Hoeksema , Barbara L. Fredrickson , Richard C. Atkinson, Geoffrey R. Loftus , Ernest R. Hilgard, Christel Lutz. Atkinson & Hilgard's Introduction to Psychology. London, 2014. ISBN: 978-1-408-08902-6.
Hausmann, C. Handbuch Notfallpsychologie und Traumabewältigung. Wien, Facultas 2003, 400s.
Interpol. Disaster Victim Identification Guide. Interpol 2009, 55 s
Recommended Reading:
Sneath, J. Z., Lacey, R., Kennett-Hensel, P. A. Coping with a natural disaster: Losses, emotions,and impulsive and compulsive buying. Marketing Letters, 2009, č. 20.
Matoušek, O.: Pracovní stres a zdraví. Výzkumný ústav bezpečnosti práce, Praha 2005. ISBN 80-903604-1-6.
Vodáčková, D.: Krizová intervence. Portál, Praha 2002. ISBN 80-7178-696-9.
Vykopalová,H.: Základy psychosociální přípravy Humanitárních jednotek ČČK. ČČK Praha 2003.
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CreditCredit85 85